Magento Responsive Theme Design

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Richard CarterDecember 2013

Good design can transform online stores and this step-by-step tutorial shows you how to create a fully customized responsive theme in the popular e-commerce solution, Magento. A must for ambitious web designers and developers.

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Book Details

ISBN 139781783980369

Paperback110 pages

About This Book

Build a mobile-, tablet-, and desktop-friendly e-commerce site

Refine your Magento store’s product and category pages for mobile

Easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide on how to get up and running with Magento

Who This Book Is For

This book is for web designers and developers with an existing knowledge of modern HTML and CSS.

Using the CSS @font-face rule to use custom fonts in your Magento theme

Summary

What You Will Learn

Implement a responsive Magento theme for your store

Master the use of the latest responsive web design techniques

Discover how to use Magento layout and template files to change your store

Use media queries to alter your Magento store based on browser width or height

Understand the fundamentals of responsive web design

Explore the Magento template hierarchy

Add basic CSS styling for your Magento theme

Enable your new theme in Magento

Style e-commerce navigation responsively in Magento

In Detail

Magento is an open source e-commerce solution. It comes with a variety of tools that are necessary for building a successful online shop. Magento offers many built-in capabilities, such as promo pricing and coupon codes, detailed statistics, and SEO options. This book will help you build your own store and will help you broaden your customer reach.

Magento Responsive Theme Design guides you through the building, enabling, and customization of a responsive Magento theme. You will be able to explore different options for navigating your store on various devices and also improve your store’s one-page checkout for mobile visitors. The book is written in a clear, step-by-step format with plenty of screenshots and tips to help you along the way.

This book will help you get your custom Magento responsive theme up and running. It covers everything from creating and enabling your new theme to utilizing Magento’s category and product templates as well as its one-page checkout feature. With this book, you will learn how to successfully build a responsive Magento theme, starting from the very basics of styling your Magento store to customizing customer accounts, product and category listings, and the one-page checkout for a range of devices. Packed with tips throughout to guide you through the process and common problems, the book is written with a clear, step-by-step approach in mind.

Authors

Richard Carter

Richard Carter is a web designer and frontend web developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north east of England.

His experience includes many open source e-commerce and content management systems, including Magento, MediaWiki, WordPress, and Drupal. He has worked with clients such as the University of Edinburgh, University College Dublin, Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.gov.uk.

He is the Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the north east of England. He graduated from the University of Durham in Software Engineering, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He blogs at http://www.earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets as @RichardCarter and @PeacockCarter.

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